Chapter 608 – The Angels’ Legacy

A few minutes later, Koltama walked out of the candy collection counter clutching thirty Candy Coins.

“Despicable, treacherous Witch! Playing the pig to eat the Angel!”

“Someone really ought to let the Hermits see how the being they consider closest to the light, the most sacred existence in their hearts, goes about cursing people.”

Mo Lan leaned against the doorframe of the candy collection counter, speaking with a half-smile.

Koltama was furious but didn’t dare say anything. He was even thinking that if only he could advance right now—if he advanced, he could defeat this Witch. And even if he couldn’t defeat her, without emotions he at least wouldn’t feel humiliated.

Unfortunately there were no ifs. All he could do was quickly feed all the Candy Coins in his hand into the corresponding candy machine.

“Welcome to the Lush & Lustrous Cotton Candy Machine! Please insert coins to purchase!”

“30 Candy Coins paid. Please collect your candy.”

The candy machine announced in its broadcast voice.

“Oh my! A regular customer! Already claimed all the free sample candy, have we? When did you first come by?” Mo Lan said in a sarcastic, mocking tone, taking advantage of the empty store.

Mystery solved. The two Angels who came today had definitely sent Light-Shadow Sprites ahead of time to claim the sample candy. The two Light-Shadow Sprites she’d swatted to death might very well have been connected to them!

Light-Shadow Sprites were a secret all Angels were sworn to keep. Koltama didn’t dare say a word, and clutching his candy, he hurried away.

The moment Koltama left, Mo Lan rushed to close the candy shop’s front door, flopped onto the sofa inside the candy collection counter, and began reviewing the two copies of Angel memories she had duplicated today.

The combined memories of these two low-ranking Angels didn’t even have the depth of the young dragon Igniwa’s memories alone.

But compared to a human mage like Luwen, they were still far richer.

Mo Lan spent most of the evening sorting through the valuable memory fragments.

Only after truly standing from an Angel’s perspective and witnessing their experiences firsthand did she realize that what the books had described before was merely scratching the surface.

What Mo Lan understood best was still Angel magic, and that was the first part of the memories she filtered through and read.

Angels were unlike Dragons, who possessed inherited memories passed down through bloodline. Nor were they like humans and Witches, who recorded knowledge in writing and transmitted it through teacher-student instruction or self-study from books.

Their medium of inheritance was something called Miracles, divided into two types: Miracle Crystals and Miracle Shards.

When a High-Ranking Angel died, their body would be placed in a location called the Pool of Miracles, where it would transform into one Miracle Crystal and a number of Miracle Shards.

A Miracle Crystal contained the Angel’s lifetime of experience with faith magic.

Miracle Shards, on the other hand, contained experience and knowledge from other areas.

Newborn Angels only needed to go to the Pool of Miracles every so often and wash their feet in it to attract some knowledge-bearing Miracle Shards.

Once they had condensed their own Ring of Faith, they could go soak in the Pool of Miracles, attract a Miracle Crystal, and through the process of fusing with the crystal, gradually master faith magic step by step.

Both Miracle Crystals and Miracle Shards were single-use.

Only Miracle Shards and Miracle Crystals that had been fully digested would transform into an Angel’s own knowledge and experience.

After death, this knowledge and experience could then be passed on in the form of new Miracle Crystals and Miracle Shards. But if an Angel died before fully digesting them, those Miracle Shards and Miracle Crystals would be wasted.

Moreover, fusing with Miracle Crystals and Miracle Shards was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

So strictly speaking, the Angels’ method of inheritance still couldn’t match the sustainability of Dragon bloodline inheritance.

However, in terms of difficulty of mastery, it was far simpler than Dragon inherited memories, and humans and Witches couldn’t even begin to compare.

Knowledge transmitted through text and language by humans and Witches varied wildly in quality between books and teachers. Learners not only had to learn how to filter their study materials and find proper mentorship, but also needed a certain level of learning ability and perseverance. Failing to learn or learning poorly was commonplace.

Knowledge transmitted through Dragons’ true memory visions came with bloodline-selected instruction from the most accomplished mentors in relevant fields, but one still needed to study diligently to actually learn it.

Angels, on the other hand, only needed to fuse Miracle Shards and Miracle Crystals into their bodies and wait for them to dissolve bit by bit to gradually master the knowledge.

There was absolutely no need to exert effort to learn. It was just like absorbing energy—the knowledge was absorbed directly into the mind, and it was the kind that would never be forgotten.

When Mo Lan learned about the Angels’ method of inheritance, even she—someone with a vast reservoir of psychic power and perfect recall—felt a twinge of envy at the Angels’ uniquely blessed learning process.

The owners of the two sets of memories she had obtained today, Otaros and Koltama, were both still low-ranking Angels.

Though they weren’t far from advancing, neither had ever obtained a Miracle Crystal. They did, however, possess quite a few Miracle Shards.

While the two of them were still in the hatching pool, they had been taken to soak in the Pool of Miracles, where they received Miracle Shards bearing knowledge of the Angelic language, the geography of Heaven’s Peak, and common knowledge of Angel society.

Heaven’s Peak was divided into nine tiers, separated by boundaries of cloud-soil that resembled layers of clouds. Each tier was as vast as 《The Witch’s Wilds》, and all nine tiers combined were comparable to the entire land area of the Continent of Valen.

Otaros and Koltama had always lived on the lowest tier closest to the ground—the dwelling place for low-ranking Angels.

After learning just how enormous the interior of Heaven’s Peak truly was, Mo Lan finally understood why Angels hadn’t claimed territory like the other races that descended during the Divine Descent Era.

There simply wasn’t anywhere in Valen that matched Heaven’s Peak—a place that suited Angel preferences while being so impossibly vast.

Angel society was one of pure meritocracy based on strength, with even natural talent ranked below actual power. The stronger you were, the higher you could live.

Regarding Angel abilities, the magic aspect was consistent with what was written in Witch texts: two major systems of holy light magic and faith magic.

However, something the Witch texts had barely mentioned was the Angels’ physical constitution and close-combat capabilities, which were clearly demonstrated in these two sets of memories.

Angels might look fair-skinned and delicate, but their strength, speed, and constitution were nothing to scoff at. While they couldn’t match Dragons, they were still superior to humans. Even untrained low-ranking Angels could fight low-level magical beasts in close combat.

Angel wings weren’t merely for flight either. When necessary, both the wings themselves and their feathers could be used as weapons.

Still, what Angels excelled at most was magical ability.

Magic was fundamentally about the development and utilization of energy. Whatever energy one possessed determined what kind of magic one could wield.

The Angels’ bloodline magical energy, angelic power, had given rise to two categories of magic: holy light magic and faith magic.

But regardless of whether it was holy light magic or faith magic, both were centered on angelic power at their core.

Angelic power shared significant similarities with natural light elements, yet also had clear distinctions from them.